Barbecue isn’t just something to do on a Sunday. It’s a rebellion. It’s a return. It’s a reaffirmation of everything good and grounded about food. So fire up that smoker, invite your neighbors, and bring out the lamb chops from your local grass farm, the beef brisket that grazed on native pasture, and the pork shoulder that rooted through the woods like nature intended.

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Food as medicine prevents disease and promotes vitality. Medicine as medicine prevents vitality and by addressing symptoms alone, promotes peripheral disease and decreased longevity and quality of life. Period.

For those seeking acorn-fed pork, it is hard to come by. Here at RIdgemeade Farm, we pride ourselves in eing one of the few farm in the region that truly raise our pigs on pasture and finish them in the hardwood forest, on acrons, chestnuts and fall mushrooms.